Yet I have heard that both pearls and opals have the power to attract to themselves the ill fortune of their wearers.
"The Maid of Maiden Lane"
Amelia E. Barr
The wearers of the shoe, although voting for its purchase, soon felt its pinch, and they wanted compensation for its pain.
"Memoirs of Orange Jacobs"
Orange Jacobs
The party consisted of five-and-twenty, many being in uniform, with their open blue jackets displaying their scarlet dress vests with the ridge of pill-sized buttons closely packed from chin to waist; and several of the wearers of these scarlet vests were from time to time pouring confidences into their neighbours' ears, the themes being two: "The cards" and "She."
"The Master of the Ceremonies"
George Manville Fenn